hinterlands

Example Sentences

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Philo subscribers can watch it on demand, and episodes can still be encountered on a hunt through the cable hinterlands.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

She demonstrated her skill and courage while on the run from Nazi snipers in the hinterlands of Croatia and Slovenia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

To call them weird, to banish them to the monstrous hinterlands, is to claw back the ability to define whether behavior is prosocial or antisocial, to determine what principles we should be conforming to.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024

She did offer this “major commitment”: The unhoused wouldn’t be moved to the hinterlands during the Games.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024

Demographically speaking, they lived in the hinterlands, remote and thinly settled; their lives were as far from Wari or Toltec lords as the nomads of Siberia were from the grandees of Beijing.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann